The mummy of a 3,000-year-old woman has been found almost perfectly preserved in a coffin in Egypt.

The sarcophagus was one of two found in an ancient tomb in El-Asasef, Luxor, on the bank of the River Nile near the Valley of the Kings.

The first one had been opened earlier and examined by Egyptian antiquities officials and contained a priest who oversaw the embalming of pharaohs.

“One sarcophagus was rishi-style, which dates back to the 17th dynasty, while the other sarcophagus was from the 18th dynasty,” Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al Anani said. “The two tombs were present with their mummies inside.”

The Eighteenth Dynasty dates back to the 13th century BC, a period noted for some of the most well known Pharaohs, including Tutankhamen and Ramses II.

It was the first known time that authorities had opened a previously unopened sarcophagus before international media.

Skeletons were found in the ancient tomb in El-Asasef, Luxor, on the bank of the River Nile near the Valley of the Kings

A view inside the newly discovered tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis, in Luxor, 700km south of Egypt’s capital Cairo, 24 November 2018

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany (centre) and Mostafa Waziri (right), the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspect an intact sarcophagus during its opening at Al-Assasif necropolis

A skull is seen inside a newly discovered burial tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis, in Luxor, Egypt November 24, 2018

An Egyptian archaeologist brushes the top of a carved black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets on November 24, 2018

An Egyptian archaeologist works on restoring sarcophagi inside a tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis, in Luxor, 700km south of Cairo

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany (centre) and Mostafa Waziri (right), the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspect an intact sarcophagus

The tomb at Al-Assasif necropolis on the west bank of the Nile north of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor was discovered earlier this month by a French mission

Egyptian archaeologists work on restoring pottery including plates and vases outside the newly discovered tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis

Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced that the Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered a Ramesside tomb of Thaw-Rakht-If, the overseer of the mummification shrine at Mut temple

Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, speaks inside the tomb, which he said was discovered after removing 300 meters of debris

A close-up view of hieroglyphics carved on a black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets discovered by an Egyptian archaelogical mission at Al-Assasif necropolis on the west bank of the Nile

An archaeologist removes the cover of an intact sarcophagus inside the tomb TT33 in Luxor, Egypt

Archaeologists remove the cover of an intact sarcophagus inside the tomb TT33. El-Enany described the newly discovered intact sarcophagus inside the tomb as magnificent. It is carved in wood with eyes inlaid with golden sheets

French Professor Frederic Colin, head of the French mission in Tomb TT33 where the sarcophagus was found, said that the sarcophagus dates to the 18th dynasty and inside it a well-preserved mummy wrapped in linen was found

Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany (centre), French Professor Frederic Colin (left) head of the French mission, and Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (2R), attend the unveiling of the cover of an intact sarcophagus, inside Tomb TT33 in Luxor

This picture taken on November 24, 2018 shows a carved black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets, which was , discovered by an Egyptian archaelogical mission at Al-Assasif necropolis on the west bank of the Nile north of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor

A carved black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets, dating to Egypt’s Late period, which has been described as magnificent

The tomb of the overseer of the mummification shrine has been unearthed in Luxor with its funerary collection at al-Assassif Necropolis on Luxor’s west bank, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced

An Egyptian archaeologist works on restoring sarcophagi inside a tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis, in Luxor, Egypt November 24

An archaeologist works on restoring an ancient artifact outside a newly discovered tomb at al-Assassif Necropolis on November 24

An Egyptian archaeologist brushes the top of a carved black wooden sarcophagus inlaid with gilded sheets, dating to Egypt’s Late period

A skull from a child mummy lies inside the newly discovered burial at al-Assassif Necropolis, in Luxor, Egypt November 24, 2018

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany gives a press conference outside the Temple of Hatshepsut on the west bank of the Nile north of the southern city of Luxor on November 24, 2018, about recent discoveries made at the nearby Al-Assasif necropolis

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